An improvement of a .8 mile portion of Dudley Road from Winding Trails to Madison Pike is expected to begin this spring and take a year to a year and a half to complete.

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Beatrice Powell has been waiting for improvements to be made to Dudley Road for 14 years.

"I've been quite concerned about the road," said the 92-year-old Edgewood resident, who lives on Dudley between Winding Trails Way and Madison Pike. "It's very narrow. I don't go up it unless I need to in an emergency. The traffic has tripled since I first moved here. It's hard to get across the street to my mailbox. There's been a lot of accidents on this road too, an awful lot."

According to police records, that portion of Dudley saw 42 vehicle accidents last year. ...